The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
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. STATE OFFICIALS.
Governoi 8. Pennoyer
Secretary of State G. W. McBride
Treasurer Phillip Metschan
Supt. oi Public Instruction E. B. McElroy
J. N. Dolph
,ntttors : J J. H. Mitchell
Congressman ..B. Hermann
State Printer .: .... Frank Baker
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge C. K. Thornbury
Sheriff. D. L. Cates
Clerk J. B. Crossen
Treasurer Geo. Ruch
Commissioners lkncSfd
Assessor John E. Barnett
Surveyor E. K. Sharp
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .Troy Shelley
Coroner William Micheu
The Arlington Record makes the ex
traordinary statement that the ship
ment of grain from .Arlington for the
past season and up till the first of Janu
ary aggregated 21,779,375 pounds. The
cost of shipping tbis grain to Albina and
Portland is said to have been $73,105.23
which the farmers have paid to the rail
road company and the Record claims
that the crop is not nearly all shipped
yet. No wonder that journal adds:
"How long would it take Gilliam county
to build a portage road around the dalles
with what could be saved to it by cheap
river transportation? Of themselves
the river coun'.iea as municipalities can
do but little in this great matter, but as
a great community of men who have
solved the problem of the productiveness
of our soil, we can show to the honest
voter from one end of this land to the
other that we need relief from the iron
grasp of a greedy corporation. If
the great corporations of the ' country
had stood in need of having the Cascade
Locks completed, who doubts that it
wonld have been done years ago?
The most important of the actual re
sults so far accomplished by the large
crops of the past season is seen, says an
exchange, in the general disposition of
the Western farmers to pay off - their
mortgages. It is said that during the
year now past more farm mortgages
have been paid oT than there were for
many years previously. The state of
Kansas keeps a record which is pub
lished monthly showing the statement
of mortgages recorded aud mortgages re
leased in the various counties and with
out exection in any county the releases
show a heavy increase over the amount
of new mortgages recorded, and this, it
is believed, will le found true of all the
west.
The John Day Sentinel is out in a
strong denunciation of the habit of vot
ing by proxy at political county conven
tions. It thinks allowing a delegate to
vote half a dozen proxies, more or lees,
has the effect of turning over a conven
tion into the hands of the faction that
can do the most intriguing, bribing,
bull-dozing, and wire-pulling. 'The
Sentinel believes that each delegate
should have one vote and no more, and
the Sentinel is right.
The Weekly Chboxici.e contains
forty-eight columns of the news of the
world every week or nearly twenty-live
hundred columns a year for the low
price of $1.50.
The biggest audience that evrr aasem
bled in Spokane greeted John L. Sulli
van in that city last Saturdav night.
Vancouver is enforcing the Sunday
closing of saloons with fair success.
A new building for a match factory is
being erected in Vancouver.
EXCHANOE ECHOES.
It has been found by actual measure- j
ment that the pouch of a pelican will
hold six gallons of water. '
Although Horace Greeley died nine
teen years ago letters to his address are
still received every now and then at the
New York Tribune office.
' In computing a man's age Chinamen I
always reckon two years back from the
day when he celebrated his first birth
day, or, in other -words, as thongh he
were a year old at the time of his birth: ',
A Washington state judge yesterday
decided that there is no law against a
being a liar in Washington. ' This will
go down in history with,' the decision
from an Oregon judge that there is no
law against being a fool in Oregon. At
torian. '
The south is in the saddle. The ex
Confederates in congress refuse to allow
the use of a naval vessel to carry food to
Btarving Russia because Russia came .to
aid tJncle Sam and prevented British
privateers from helping the Confederacy.
The war is over but it is not forgotten.
' Chicaqo Inter-Ocean. ' -
Professor Spencer B'aird once said
that as a fish has no maturity . there is
nothing to prevent it from living indefi
nitely and growing continually. He
cited, in proof a pike in Russia whose
age is known to date back to the fifteenth
century. In the royal aquarium at St.
Petersburg there are hundreds of fish
that were put in over 150 years ago.
THOUSANDS OF VOLTS.
STARTLING EFFECTS OF SOME HIGH
Z- ' TENSION CURRENTS. :
Eleetrteltjr sit m Pressure That. Is Simply
Wonderful What Mar lie Dose with at
Current of 45,000 Volts Can Hardly Be
Imagined Remarkable Sight.
Several tests: have been made with
alternating currents of electricity at very
high pressures. As only 1 ,000 volts were
needed to kill the condemned murderers
inBing Sing prison, the effect of 45,000
and 48,000 volts on animate and inan
imate objects can hardly be imagined.
The difficulty of insulating the enormous
force is very serious, as an arc will flash
across ' four or five inches of space be
tween the electrodes, and high tension
currents have not been used much. The
current for the lights and power at the
electro-technical exhibition at Frank-fort-on-the-Main
was transmitted . from
Lauffen, where it was generated by
water powes, at a pressure of 16,000
volts. After the close of the exhibition
experiments were made with the wire
and insulators at high pressures, and
they were among the most interesting of
the electrical experiments.
The distance between the eities is
abouf 108 miles, and the - wire, one
eighth of an inch in diameter, weighed
132,000 pounds. The insulators were
able to preserve the intensity of the cur
rent. Ehc'u was composed of three sec
tions. The porcelain top was flat, with
a deep groove for the wire. Underneath
was a saucer shaped receptacle, and be
neath that were two more, one of larger
breadth and depth than the other, and
all were filled with oil. The binding
wires ran through the oil, which is a
good nonconductor. At Frankfort a
commutator changed the alternating
current to a continuous current for light
and power. In the experiments the
pressure was increased to 20,000, 40,000
and 48,000 volts.
Beyond 27,000 volts the porcelain in
sulators were punctured frequently. In
producing an arc between two carbons
at 40,000 volts a plate of glass was
pierced very quickly. At 48,000 volts
the intensity was so great that the light
was not so brilliant as it was at 20,000
volts. It is believed . that 50,000 volts
can be reached with' conductors pro
tected from the effects of weather.
CURRENTS OF 40,000 VOLTS.
" Almost at the same time the Siemens
Bros., of London, were experimenting
with high tension currents, having had
at the Naval exhibition an apparatus
capable of delivering a current at a pres
sure of 45,000 volts. This description of
a private exhibition, of the apparatus
with 40,000 volts is from Engineering:
"On a table was an electrode some
three inches in length, connected to one
terminal of a transformer. Over it was
mounted a large sheet of glass three mil
limeters thick, and above the glass was
a second electrode terminating in a sharp
point, the distance between the elec
trodes being three centimeters. When
the current was turned on to the primary
coil of the transformer there first ap
peared a purple haze at the upper elec
trode streaming toward the glass. As
the current increased this haze grew in
fullness and definition, and began to
tnrow out feelers, which darted outward
and as quickly withdrew. As the elec
tromotive force augmented still further,
these feelers gathered power until they
beat themselves on The glass as if they
would force themselves through it in
their mad desire to reach the other elec
trode. The whole space below the point
ed conductor became alive with them,
and exhibited a mass of leaping, crack
ling threads ofvpurple fire, which writhed
and twisted in impotent attempts to
burst through the barrier, and failing
that, spread themselves along its surface,
endeavoring to rush over its edges, and
so reach their goal by a circuitous route.
"But this was beyond their strength
until the electro-motive force approached
45,000 volts, when suddenly the entire
appearance was changed. The current
overleaped the edges of the plate and
flowed completely around it in all di
rections. At that moment the intense
purple color of the spark disappeared,
and was replaced by white light of the
greatest brilliancy, which glistened and
flashed until the spectators had to turn
away their bedazzled gaze. .
REMARKABLE EXPERIMENTS.
"A change in the arrangement was
then made. The upper pointed electrode
was replaced by a brass disk, three
inches in diameter. ' This was laid over
the surface of the glass plate with three
very thin washers of vulcanite, inter
vening between the two. .The current
was then turned on in the same gradual
manner as before. The space between
the two disks immediately filled ' with
purple light, which had sufficient motion
in it to recall the flame of a Bunsen
burner, spread out under the bottom pf
a beaker. Sparks then began to appear
at the edges,' and, as .they gathered
strength, to radiate a little beyond them.
Gradually they became ' ' streamers,
stretching out along the surface of the
plate in curved, fanciful, forms which
twined and twisted. and w;eaved. them
selves into a glistening filagree, compared
by an imaginative spectator to an ago-'
nized Japanese chrysanthemum. "
"This experiment had not the brilliant
refulgence of the on that preceded it,
but was characterized by a quivering
irradiation which wreathed and. tossed
like a bird beating itself at the bars of
its cage. In spite of its less formidable
appearance, however, it proved destruc
tive to the glass, which presently flew
in pieces with a crash. . Several k sheets
were tried in succession, but. each was
pierced and broken and allowed the cur
rent to attain its - object of flowing di
rectly, from one electrode to the other." :
In experimenting with an arc at 44,000
volts the arc established itself when the
electrodes were five inches apart, but the
flames, instead of bridging the space,
spread out in two thin tongues at right
augles to the electrodes . and parallel to
each other. When the electrodes were
pushed nearer together the flames wan
dered back along the stems, repelling
each other. New York Times. .
The Coodactor YTnald Net.' Bestirs),
Colonel Thomas F. Fisher iella a story
which is good one. Among the fiist
railroads built in the United State was"
a litcle line about twenty finilesr in
leugta. In the , course of time. a.
tunnel line was constructed through the,
same country. The original ' Une.be;
came merely a branch. For many years
it was run in a cheap Way,' with one
locomotive, one engineer and two or
three freight cars.
Finally a new general manager was
appointed. He had been in the office
but a week when he sent for the one
lone conductor who had held the posi
tion ever since the road.was built.
. "I would .like to have your resigna
tion," said the general manager, when
the conductor appeared.
"My resignation?" inquired the con
ductor in astonishment.
"Yes, sir; yours."
"What for, pray?"
"Well, I want to make some changes
and get new blood in the line," was the
general manager's reply. '-
"I won't resign," answered the con
ductor. "Then I will be compelled to discharge
you, a step which for your sake I had
hoped I would be saved from taking."
"Young man, you will not discharge
me. I own a controlling interest in the
stock of this railroad and elect the presi
dent and board of directors. I shall have
you fired."
The old conductor did really own the
majority of the stock, and, as he said.
put in his own board of directors and
president. Atlanta Constitution.
An Ideal Studio.
In my experience there is nothing like
a gondola to paint from, especially in
tne summer and it is the summer time,
Then all these Venetian cabs are gay in
their sunshiny attire, and have laid
aside their dark, hooded cloaks, their
rainy day mackintoshes their felsi
and have pulled over their shoulders a
frail awning of creamy white, perched
upon a delicate iron framework, with
snowy curtains at sides and back, under
which you paint in state or- lounge lux
uriously, drinking in the beauty about
you. .
I have in my wanderings tried all sorts
of moving things to paint from; tartanas
in Spain, volantes in Cuba, broad sailed
luggers in Holland, mules in Mexico, and
cabs everywhere. One I remember with
delight an old nighthawk in Amster
dam that offered me not only its-front
seat for my easel, its arm rest for my
water dottle, and a pocket in the door
flap for brushes (I am likely to expect all
tnese conveniences in even the most dis
reputable of cabs), but insisted on giving
me the additional luxury of a knot hole
in its floor for waste water..
But with all this a cab -is not a gon
dola. F. Hopkinson Smith in Scribner's,
Only One rfh His Side.
A cspital story is told of a well known
judge who is noted for his fondness for
conveying to -jurors in his charges to
them his own opinions with regard to
the merits, of the case. In one case he
had done so with great plainness, but to
nis amazement the jury remained out
for hours without coming to an agree
ment. The judge inquired of the bailiff
what was the matter, and learned from
him that one juror was holding out
against tne otner eleven.
He sent for the jury at once, and stat
ing to the jurors that be had plainly
intimated how the case ought to be de
cided, said he understood the one juror
was standing out against " the other
eleven. He proceeded to rebuke the
juror sharply. The obstinate juror was
a nervous little man, and as soon as the
judge was done he rose and said:
"My lord, may I say a word?"
"Yes, sir," said the indignant judge;
"what have you to say?"
"Well, what I wanted to say is, I am
the only fellow that's on your sid e."
London Tit-Bits.
Was Columbus a Dsgo?
"I don't often laugh outright in the
schoolroom," said a down town teacher
the other day, "but I have to struggle
hard to suppress an audible smile some
times. Eor instance, I was instructing
my class one day in the events just pre
ceding the revolutionary war, and after
I had read and explained the lesson I
began to ask questions about it. I asked
one boy to name one of the causes that
led to the revolt of the colonies against
Great Britain. 'Tea, he answered. That
was all right, so I said to another, a col
ored boy, by the way, 'Name another
cause.' After a pause he replied, 'Cof
fee.' "On the same day I gave my boys a
short talk " about Columbus, and then
asked, 'Who. can tell me the nationality
of Columbus!' . A half dozen hands were
raised, and selecting pne of my brightest
scholars I told him to answer. , Judge of
my surprise when he said triumphantly,
'Dago.' "Philadelphia Record. J . -
logs May Talk Some Day.
Professor A. Graham Bell .believes,
that dogs may be taught to pronounce
words, and is now making scientific ex
periments in: this, direction. . The same
opinion .. was expressed two centuries
ago by o less an . authority than Leib
nitz, who adduces some startling facts
in support of it. ' The value bf such a
language as a means "of enlarging the
animal's sphere of thought and power of
conception, and . of giving a higher de
velopment to its intellectual faculties, is
incalculable. Professor E. P. Evans in
Popular Science Monthly. ' '
Dieting; and the Complexion.
Sometimes a strictly vegetable' and
fruit diet, avoiding carefully all butter
and vegetable fate, will purify the com
plexion when the most careful regime
in bathing and all the prescriptions of
the physician are of no avail. . Such diet
ing need be adhered to for. only a few
weeks and then one may go back gradu
ally to One's ordinary diet, remembering,'
however, that an abundance of rich
pastiries, cakes - and sweetmeats, eateu
promiscuously between meal times, will
tend to ruin the very best complexion in
the woild. Exchange.
SOCIETIES.
ASSEMBLY NO. 4827, K. OF L.-Meets In K.
. '-of P. hall the second and fourth Wednes
days, of each month at 7:30 p. m.
VrtTiLKXJ LODGE, NO. 15, A. F. & Al'M.-Meets
' 5. Vr ,first and, third Monday of each mouth at 7
'jYAXjJBS ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER- NoVs.
XJ- Meets In Masonic Hall the third Wednesday
ot each month at 7 P.M. -uj
MODERN WOODMEN OF THE WORLD.
Mt Hood CampNo. 59, Meets Tuesday even
ing; of each week in the K. of P. Hall, at 7:30 r. at.
COLUMBIA LODGE, NO. 6, I. O. O. F. Meets
, "Ie,7 Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock, in K.
of P. hall, comer Second and Court streets
Sojourning brothers are welcome. ' n
H. Clouoh, Secly. , . . . H, a. Bills,n. G.
FRIENDSHIP LODGE, NO. 9., K. of P Meets
B-...eKM.'?2dT evening- at 7:30 o'clock, in
Schanno's building, comer of Court and Second
streets. Sojourning members are cordially in.
vited. w. 8. Cram.
D. W.Vause, K. of R. and 8. - . c. C. -
WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN" TEMPERENCE
UNION will meet every Friday afternoon
at So clock at the reading room. All are invited.
TEMPLE LODGE NO. S, Ai-oi U.W Meets
. f K- HaU' Comer Second and Court
Streets, Thursday evenings at 7 :30.
tmt "'. . John Fiuoow,1
W. 8 Mtbbs, Financier.'; : M. W.
TA8. NESMITH P08T, No. 32, G. A R Meets
every Saturday at 7:80 p. m., in the K. of P.
Mali. 1 -
B
the k.. of P. Hall. . .
CJE3ANG VEREIN Meets every Sunday
JT evening in the K. of P. Hall.
"R J h EVPS'0?' No. 167-Meets in the
jk-rm r. nouuiuiiTOana third Wednes
day of each month, st 7:8k r. m.
TUB CHCKCHES.
ST. PETER 8 CHURCH -Rev. Father Brons
gebst Pastor. Low Mass every Sunday at
7 r a? 10:30 A- Vespers at
A DVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH.-Preaching
JT. in the l . M. C. A. rooms every Sunday at 11
a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday school immediately
after raornine service. J. A-. nnhri ... '
" " J fHMTMWl.
RTt.FAUL CHURCH Union Street, opposite
11 Fifth Rov 111 t Unh,llffnD . ' t'l""'.."'
n uuh,ihiv ii-vwir. cervices
every Sunday at II A. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sundav
School 9:45 A. M.- Evening Prayer on Friday at
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCtt-Rev. O. D. Tat
lor. Pastor. Morning services every Sab
bath at the academy at 11 a. m. Sabbath
P. M.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Rev. W. C
Curtis, Pastor. Services every Sunday at 11
. M. and 7P. m. Sunday School after morning
service. Strangers cordially invito! Spnh, fma
ME. CHURCH Rev. A. C.Spkncer, pastor!
Services everv Sundav mnrnlmF Uimrl...-
School at 12:20 o'clock P. u. A cordial invitation
is extended by both pastor and people to all.
A. A. Brown,
Keeps a full assortment of
and Provisions.
which he offer at Low Figures.
SPECIAL :-: PRICES
to Cash Buyers.
Highest Cash Prices for Eip an j
other Prate.
170 SECOND STREET.
livini? made arrangements with a
nnmoer of Factories, I am pre
pared to furnish
Doors, Windows, Mouldings,
STORE FRONTS
And all kinds of Special work. Ship
ments made daily from factory and can
fill orders in the shortest possible time.
Prices satisfactory.
'It will be to your interest to see me
before purchasing elsewhere.
Wm. Saunders,
Office over French's Bank.
W. E. GARRETSON.
Leadiag - Jeweler.
. - SOLE AGENT FOB THK
All Watch Work Warranted.
Jewelry : Made to Order.
-138 Second St.. The Dalles, Or.
FLOURING MILL TO LEASE.
THE OLD DALLES MILL AND WATER
Company's Flour Hill will be leased to re
sponsible parties. For Information apply to the
WATER COMMISSIONERS,
'1 he Dalles, Oregon.
Notice.
All parties haying claims against the
estate of Ralph Fonger, deceased, will
please present the same to T. T. Nicho
las, administrator. V'
Columbia Hotel, Dalles City, Or.,
January 6, 1892. . j6-lm
Step
le and Fancy Grocer
BuilHing materials !
EOBT. TVT rVg-S.
MAYS &
SALE AGENTS FOR
fleoi?n ' ' and ' Chattet Oak
STOVES AND RANGES.
JewetTs Steel Baies, and Riclarton's ani Boyaton's Fraaces.
. ";!"" :;'': "y " ; r -. i -. - .. ............
We also keep a large and complete stock of
Hardware, Tinware, Granite, Blueware, Silverware, Cutlery,
Barbed Wire, Blacksmiths' Coal, Pumps,, Pipe,
Packing, Plumbers Supplies, Guns,
Ammunition and Sporting Goods.
Plumbing, Tinning, Gun Repairing and Light
Machine Work a Specialty.
COK. SECOND AND FEDERAL 8TS...
at Bargains !
Removal ! Removal I
On account of Removal I will sell my
entire stock of Boots and Shoes, Hats
and Caps, Trunks and Valises, Shelv
ings, Counters, Desk, Safe, Fixtures,
at a Great Bargain. Come and see
my offer.
GREAT REDUCTION ' IN RETAIL.
125 esond Street,
HEW Fjttlr HP WIHIEB DBY GOODS
COMPLETE IN EVERY DEPARTMENT.
Glothing, Gents' Furnishing Goods, Hats, Gaps,
Boots and Shoes.
Full Assortment of the Leading Manufacturers,
Cash Bayers mill save money by examining oar stock
and prices before purchasing elsewhere.
H. Herbringv
The Dalles Mercantile Co.,
Successors to BROOKS & BEERS, Dealers la
General Merchandise, Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
Gents' Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, etc.
Groceries, v Hardware,
Proyisions, Flour, Bacon,
H AX, GRAIN And produce
Of all Kinds at Lowest Market Rates. .
Free Delivery to Boat and Curs and all parts of the City.
390 and 394 Second Street '
r M. C. NlELSeN, :
Clothier and Tailop
BOOTS AND SHOES,
Hats and Caps, Trunks and ; Valises,
CORNER OF SECOND AND WASHINGTON, THE DALLES, OREGON T
PAUL KREFT & CO..
. . DEALERS IN .
Paints, Oils, Glass
And the Moat Complete and the Latest
Patterns and Designs in
WAT iT i FAFEH.
Practical Painters and Paper Hangers. None
but the best brands of the 8herwfn-Wllliams
Paint used in all our work, and1 none but the
most skilled workmen employed.- All orders
promptly attended to . - 10-17-d
Stare and Paint Shop corner Third and
Wsihlnrtoa Streets.
CROWE,
THE CELEBRATED
; TH K DALLES, OREGON.
The Dalles.
The Old Germania Saloon.
JOHH DOflaVOfl, PropJietop.
The heat quality of Wines, Liquors and
Cigare, Pabst Milwaukee Knicker
bocker and Columbia' Beej,"'
Half and Half and all kinds
of Temperance Drinks. .
t i
ALWAYS OI .HAND.
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